RIM Shareholder Jarislowsky Adds to Call for Chairman, CEO Split

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Billionaire Stephen Jarislowsky, one of Research In Motion Ltd.’s largest shareholders, added his name to the call for the BlackBerry smartphone maker to split the roles of chairman and chief executive officer.

“You should not have these two people at both positions because they have worked together all their lives and they are basically the same person, from point of view of policy,” Stephen Jarislowsky, chairman of Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd., said today in an interview.